What about using pgp? It encrypts files end email with a customised privacy level (key lenght)?
Leonardo Diciolla --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > Thanks for all of the replies on this topic.. Still > not too sure what is the > best way of going really. > > The reason for encryption is that the files contain > personal data which we > don't want to pass clear text. > > In an ideal world the files will unencrypt > themselves as the people we are > sending the files are idiots ;) so we have to make > it as simple as possible > for them! The caveat for this is that they us > windows so it would need to be > an m$ executable file that is created. > > We already have a tool that can do what I want, but > it needs M$ to do the > encryption as well, I guess I could experiment using > this under dosemu / > wine. As the enryption process is done via a script > can dosemu be run > scripted rather than interactively (ie the program I > have prompts for a > password, can I feen the password in via the > (dosemu) calling script > instead?) > > Thanks for ALL of your help, > > Jamie > > -------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ITS > Internal Extension : 5806 > Direct Dial : 0870 754 5806 > -------------------------------------------- > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adolfo Bello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 March 2003 18:27 > To: MDK Mandrake > Subject: Re: [newbie] File encryption software > > > On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 13:41, David E. Fox wrote: > > > Well, pkzip can create self-extracting > executables, of course. But > > we've had them too for as long as I can remember > -- they're callsed > > shell archives. Still you need some way to encrypt > the file. On the > > other hand, if the OP wants to be able to extract > (cleartext) files, > > why should the archive be encrypted in the first > place? > > > > In case people aren't familiar with them, shell > archives are really > > kind of neat in that they contain a shell script > that extracts the > > files inside the shell script,via what's called > 'here' documents (in > > shell, this is a 'file' that's embedded in a > script.) > > > > #! /bin/sh > > # sample here document extractor > > cat >extracted-file <<!EOF > > * > > this is a test of the emergency broadcast system > this is only a test > > > > !EOF > > > > More recently, we see self-extracting archives > where all the (binary) > > data is embedded in the script -- for example, > open office's > > installer. > Good one. > > Using uuencode/uudecode the problem is solved even > for binaries. > > The only part missing is the encryption. > -- > __ > / \\ @ __ __ @ Adolfo Bello > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria > S.A, ICQ: 65910258 > / \\ // / \\ / // // / // celular: +58 416 > 609-6213 > /___// // / <_/ \__\\ //__/ // fax : +58 212 > 952-6797 > www.bisapi.com // pager : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > ______________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Cellulari: loghi, suonerie, picture message per il tuo telefonino http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mobile.yahoo.com/index2002.html
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